🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <34b969a1.0@muir-et2.staff.demon.net>
           malcolm@demon.net "Malcolm Muir" writes:

> Brian {Hamilton Kelly} (bhk@dsl.co.uk) wrote:
> > [Note cross-post and follow-ups]
> 
> ????

Can you not read headers with TIN?

> > When running SNews, one can press "o" (lower-case Oh) to print the
> > current article (or thread, if used at the group "menu" level).  This
> > printing *always* takes place to PRN (indeed, if one has printed
> > something, and later uses "s" to save to a file, when one is asked to
> > enter the name of the file, the last "file" used is shown as "prn").
> > 
> > Printing *always* takes place to the PRN device, which is irretrievably
> > associated with physical device LPT1: (so far as I can see; there doesn't
> > seem to be anything to associate PRN with a different device, unless that
> > happens to be on a serial COM port).
> 
> Do I not recall a distant memory of 'mode prn:=lpt2:' (or similar) ?

No; attempting to enter such a command is met with resounding non-success
(and an error message).

> > My girlfriend uses SNews in a DOS box under Win'95 on her machine which
> > is networked to my OS/2 system (which holds the newsbase, etc).  However,
> > she is constrained to printing on LPT1 by the apparent design of SNews,
> > whereas she would *like* to print to "LPT2", which doesn't really exist,
> > being a network printer on my machine.  Pressing "o" always activates the
> > printer physically on LPT1, even when the network printer on pseudo-
> > interface LPT2 has been selected as Windoze's "Default Printer" (although
> > it certainly then becomes the default for anything printed from within a
> > *Windows* program).
> 
> Windows DOS box == all bets off. :)

:-) indeed!

> I used to have a small DOS utility that swapped lpt1 and lpt2 that
> would do the trick. It is probably still on the ftp site. Unless
> someone beats me I will look up the name next time I run DOS. It
> was something like 'lptswap'.

Now that DOES sound handy: I await (with bated breath) your next posting.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
        "The fundamental design flaws [of the products of the Micros^WSirius
        Cybernetics Corporation]  are completely hidden by their superficial
        design flaws."  SLATFATF 1983 --- wasn't Douglas Adams prescient?:-)